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T
he strange case of
Jonathan Jay Pollard,
convicted of spying for
Israel while an intelligence
analyst for the United States
government, scraped at the
raw nerves of the American
Jewish community.
As a result, the Pollard case
is still depicted in terms of
gross stereotypes: Pollard as
the almost innocent victim of
a Dreyfus-like burst of anti-
Semitism, Pollard as the in-
competent, unstable traitor,
Pollard as the hero of Israel.
In all of the news reporting
on the subject, in all of the op-
ed stories on both sides of the
issue, there has been a
remarkable lack of insight in-
to the forces that led
Jonathan Pollard to do what
he did — and the factors that
led Israel to undertake so
risky a venture.
Veteran Jerusalem Post cor-
respondent Wolf Blitzer pro-
vides some of these insights
in his long-awaited book, Ter-
ritory of Lies. Without at-
tempting to portray Pollard as
a victim or a hero, Blitzer pro-
vides the first real glimpse in-
to the tangle of international
and psychological factors that
came together to cause
Pollard's destruction.
In a series of exclusive in-
terviews with Pollard just
before his sentencing, and in
interviews with many of
Pollard's relatives, friends
and colleagues, Blitzer paints
a picture of a man with an
undeniable passion for Israel,
and a quick and dexterous
mind that gave him the abili-
ty to rationalize his actions.
But Pollard also came to
Naval Intelligence with
heavy emotional baggage, in-
cluding a vivid imagination
and fantasies about spying for
Israel that spilled over into
his everyday conversations as
early as his college days.
Blitzer begins with
Pollard's privileged but
unhappy youth. He describes
Pollard's status as an outsider
who tended to see himself as
fending off a hostile and anti-
Semitic world, and traces the
origins of his fierce commit-
ment to Israel.
He describes Pollard's ap-
proach to the Israelis as a
"walk on" agent. Pollard con-
tinues to insist that he was
motivated primarily by his
fear that critical intelligence
was being denied the Israelis.
But the fear, Blitzer suggests,
became an obsession that
clouded Pollard's judgment
and ultimately led him to
take unnecessary risks.
Blitzer describes the
deliberate corruption of
Pollard by his Israeli handlers
and by the officials running
the operation, including
Rafael "Rafi" Eitan, the
legendary Israeli spymaster
and head of the Israeli Office
of Scientific Liaison, and
Aviem Sella, the veteran
fighter pilot who handled the
initial contacts with Pollard.
From the outset, the
Israelis encouraged Pollard to
accept payment for his ser-
vices. "Sella had earlier been
informed by Eitan that once
they were convinced that
Some suggested
that I was too
sympathetic to a
confessed spy. But
others would
consider me one of
Pollard's
hangmen .. .
Pollard was the real thing,
they should follow standard
operating procedures to make
sure that the walk-in did not
walk out," Blitzer writes.
"The most important step,
traditionally, is to get the pro-
spective spy to accept money;
then he would forever be com-
promised. He could never
leave."
Although he resisted in-
itially, Pollard eventually
cooperated in his own corrup-
tion. Blitzer documents an in-
creasingly extravagant
lifestyle and Pollard's efforts
to provide his wife with
documents on China to give
her career a boost.
And finally, Blitzer provides
a concise history of Pollard's
downfall, including his Israeli
handlers' apparent decision
to sacrifice their spy in the in-
terests of salvaging Israel's
critical relationship with the
United States.
Along the way, Blitzer deals
directly with the particularly
sensitive question of whether
he was used by the prosecu-
tion to help ensure a stiff
sentence for the Israeli spy.
Pollard's claims that he was
sorry only that his activities
were not more effective —
quoted in Blitzer's initial
stories — were cited by the
government in critical pre-
sentencing documents.
And former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger,
in his well-known memo to
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